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Zoe owns a small business selling clothing. She knows that in the last week 41 customers paid cash, 54 customers used a debit card, and 44 customers used a credit card.
Based on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with a debit card as a fraction in simplest form.
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Zoe owns a small business selling clothing. She knows that in the last week 4141 customers paid cash, 5454 customers used a debit card, and 4444 customers used a credit card.\newlineBased on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with a debit card as a fraction in simplest form.\newlineAnswer:

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Q. Zoe owns a small business selling clothing. She knows that in the last week 4141 customers paid cash, 5454 customers used a debit card, and 4444 customers used a credit card.\newlineBased on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with a debit card as a fraction in simplest form.\newlineAnswer:
  1. Calculate total customers: Determine the total number of customers from last week.\newlineTo find the total number of customers, we add the number of customers who paid with cash, debit card, and credit card.\newlineTotal customers = 4141 (cash) + 5454 (debit card) + 4444 (credit card)\newlineTotal customers = 139139
  2. Find debit card probability: Express the probability that the next customer will pay with a debit card. The probability of an event is the number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of outcomes. In this case, the favorable outcomes are the number of customers who used a debit card, and the total number of outcomes is the total number of customers. Probability (paying with debit card) = Number of customers who used a debit card / / Total number of customers Probability (paying with debit card) = 54139 \frac{54}{139}
  3. Simplify fraction: Simplify the fraction to its simplest form.\newlineThe numbers 5454 and 139139 have no common factors other than 11, so the fraction 54139\frac{54}{139} is already in its simplest form.

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